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cmm

Good old leftie virtue signaling/”silent tory” effects screws up polls yet again… Just with FARC it’s a bit more serious because they won’t just unfriend you on facebook – they’ll slice you up and your family too.

This is an excellent result. FARC were being offered far too good a deal and atrocious criminals were going to be pardoned. Those commie scum have caused Columbians pain for over 50 years and need some harsh treatment.

The people have spoken. They want the bastards routed and left in no position to take power. Good on the Columbians – when a real peace comes they’ve earned it.

Sure peace is nice, but not at any cost. Not if it sets up FARC as a political force.

mikenmild

While if would be nice to eliminate FARC altogether, that is clearly militarily impossible. A peace deal is therefore needed, which necessarily entails agreement. Too harsh a deal for FARC would simply see them fight on.

labrator

They have dubbed this threat “Castro-Chavismo” after the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and the late Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez.

They point to the fact that the Cuban government hosted the peace talks and Venezuela acted as a facilitator as evidence of the influence these two left-wing governments had on the negotiations.

They have accused President Santos of “selling the country out” and warn that with the rebels becoming political players, Colombia could soon resemble Cuba and Venezuela and suffer from the same shortages these countries are experiencing.

Inandout

Huevon

A famous phrase from Patricio Alwyn, the first elected president in Chile’s transition to democracy after the brutal Pinochet dictatorship, was that there would be “justicia en la medida de lo posible” ( justice in the possible way).

That’s really the most people can hope for in Latin America – bedevilled as it is by emotions, entrenched political ideology and a history of violence.

Let’s hope some of Alwyn’s spirit prevails in Colombia and they don’t slide back into conflict.